Razor Blade Cold
Dex Hannon
£750
Description
This painting is a visual response to Leonard Cohen's iconic track, So Long, Marianne. The depth and raw emotion in Cohen's words resonate profoundly, carried by the dark, haunting tones of his voice and the weight of his lyrics.
One verse in particular became the anchor for the piece, inspiring its title:
"Now I need your hidden love
I'm cold as a new razor blade
You left when I told you I was curious
I never said that I was brave."
Listening to the track on repeat, I allowed the music and words to guide my movement. Each stroke became a reflection of Cohen’s melancholic longing and quiet vulnerability, capturing the tension between fragility and strength. The result is a painting that seeks to translate sound and poetry into a visceral, visual experience, an exploration of loss, courage, and the complexity of human connection.
Details
Materials
Acrylic paint, canvas
Weight
4kg
Dimensions
90 W x 90 H x 4 D cm
Delivery
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Price
UK Mainland
£30.00
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About the artist
Dex Hannon
Northumberland, United KingdomDex Hannon
Northumberland, United KingdomBritish Multimedia Artist, originally from Manchester now based in the North East. In 2025, he won the Collectors' Art Prize - Legends of Our Time Award. In 2020, he won best in show for the International Art Folio 2020 Annual award. In 2019, he was shortlisted for the Refresh Art Prize 2019.
His work encompasses paint, digital art, film, sound, and photography. His practice is an exploration of transformation and reinvention. At its core is a guiding question: “What else could it be?” A single frame can ignite an entire cascade of creation, a painting, a film or a digital work, each one carrying within it the potential for the next. In this recursive approach, the boundaries between mediums dissolve. Paintings give rise to films, films fracture into digital works, and digital interventions in turn inspire new material explorations. Nothing is ever final. Each work functions simultaneously as culmination and inception, a node within an expanding network of possibility.
Hannon works across painting, film and digital media, frequently collaborating with alter egos such as Skin Vehicles to expand the dialogue between sound, image and motion. The practice is not constrained by the conventions of medium, chronology or narrative. Instead, it embraces instability, evolution, chance and the unpredictable trajectories of artistic experimentation.
The work invites the viewer into a space where memory, perception and imagination intersect. Scale, materiality and temporal shift become tools for reflection, while the recursive methodology challenges assumptions about originality, finality and authorship. Hannon’s oeuvre is less concerned with depiction than with enactment, offering a lens through which audiences can reconsider not only what art is but what it might catalyse in thought and experience.
The Secret Salon: London Open 2025
ABSTRACTION 25 - Line, Form, and Harmony - Alliance Française Cusco - Peru 2025
Blythian Memes - Republic gallery: Solo Show - 2025
Wow Northumberland : Ashington - Woodhorn Museum 2025
The Path - Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, during the Venice Biennale 2024
Abstracts Northlight Arts - Leeds 2024
Headway Arts Open 2024
Spring Awakening - Fox Yard Studio Art Gallery 2024
Wow Northumberland : Ashington - Woodhorn Museum 2024
Kraftstrom - B22 - November 22 at the Contemporary Art Museum of Cusco - Peru 2024
